Designer and scholar Rebecca Earley actively explores methods of “upcyling,” a recycling concept in which the resultant product is one of equal or greater value. This tunic began as a secondhand garment that Earley transformed through various technologies, such as heat photogram printing, during the course of a research project entitled “Ever & Again: Rethinking Recycled Textiles.”

Object Number: 2010.42.1

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
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